{"id":4795,"date":"2019-06-10T09:19:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T14:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homerlee.com\/blog\/?p=4795"},"modified":"2019-06-10T09:19:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T14:19:14","slug":"my-hero-mentor-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.homerlee.com\/showcase\/2019\/06\/10\/my-hero-mentor-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"My hero, mentor, &#038; friend!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On Sat. June 8th, 2019, the world has lost an incredibly talented man, his name was Wayne Milnes! He would have celebrated his 69th birthday on June 25th. \u00a0Truly, he was the &#8216;Robin Williams&#8217; of the Ozarks! \u00a0Hands down Wayne was the funniest man we have ever known. \u00a0He was the comic genius for many years, training at Southwest MO. State University under the acting Professor Howard Orms. \u00a0Wayne moved to Branson working at Silver Dollar City, Shad Heller&#8217;s The Corn Crib Theatre &#8211; the Toby Show, The Memory Makers at the 76 Music Hall &amp; the Grand Country Square, Big Cedar Lodge, &amp; 100s of personal appearances! \u00a0He had his own TV show &#8216;Sammy&#8217;s Place&#8217; as Sammy B. Good. \u00a0How fortunate anyone was to have worked across from Wayne. \u00a0 He was the master of comedy &amp; Wayne was ALWAYS &#8220;on&#8221;! \u00a0He taught me, mentored me, &amp; was my friend until the very end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.homerlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/21369088_10212208077030293_8285862642640019453_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4796\" src=\"http:\/\/www.homerlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/21369088_10212208077030293_8285862642640019453_n-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"21369088_10212208077030293_8285862642640019453_n\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homerlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Scan-2019-6-9-16.28.24-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4797\" src=\"http:\/\/www.homerlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Scan-2019-6-9-16.28.24-2-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Scan 2019-6-9 16.28.24 2\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homerlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Scan-2019-6-9-16.28.24-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4798\" src=\"http:\/\/www.homerlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Scan-2019-6-9-16.28.24-3-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"Scan 2019-6-9 16.28.24 3\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homerlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Scan-2019-6-10-07.19.48.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4799\" src=\"http:\/\/www.homerlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Scan-2019-6-10-07.19.48-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"Scan 2019-6-10 07.19.48\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homerlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/WAYNE1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.homerlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/WAYNE1-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"WAYNE1\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homerlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/WAYNE2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4801\" src=\"http:\/\/www.homerlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/WAYNE2-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"WAYNE2\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We will miss the love, laughter, lunacy, &amp; legend, but what a legacy to leave behind the great joy knowing you made the world a better place! \u00a0Peace be with you buddy! \u00a0Always, Terry\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sat. June 8th, 2019, the world has lost an incredibly talented man, his name was Wayne Milnes! He would have celebrated his 69th birthday on June 25th. \u00a0Truly, he was the &#8216;Robin Williams&#8217; of the Ozarks! \u00a0Hands down Wayne was the funniest man we have ever known. \u00a0He was the comic genius for many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homerlee.com\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homerlee.com\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homerlee.com\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homerlee.com\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homerlee.com\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.homerlee.com\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homerlee.com\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homerlee.com\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homerlee.com\/showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}